Hansard , n :
(also attributively, historical) A member of a Hanse (“merchant guild”), or a resident of a Hanse town. […]
(chiefly Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.
The English printer Thomas Curson Hansard, who printed reports of debates and proceedings in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, was born on this day in 1776.